Fairfax County Democratic Committee Chair calls on School Board Member Elizabeth Schultz (R-Springfield) to resign from her position on the School Board

Schultz embraces Trump’s comments, jokes brazenly about firearms

(FAIRFAX, VA) Referencing the Washington Post video in which the Republican nominee for president lewdly joked about sexual harassment, in a series of wild and unhinged tweets, Fairfax County School Board Representative, Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield District), bizarrely claimed that “…the Trump tapes don’t matter.”

Schultz went on to imply that protections for transgender students were a larger threat, “When 10-yo [sic] legally changing their gender online w/ no therapy is ‘progress.’”

When pressed to explain her support for Donald Trump, Elizabeth Schultz mocked her questioner and replied, “Nope, just buying more ammo.”

Sue Langley, Chair of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee, said, “I am appalled by Donald Trump’s remarks about women, but unfortunately, I am not surprised. What is downright insulting to Fairfax County families is that Elizabeth Schultz, who purports to stand for family values and is tasked with oversight of our great school system, is not only defending Donald Trump’s disgusting comments, but joking about them.”

“As an economist, naturalized citizen, taxpayer and registered voter, there is plenty about Donald Trump that I find distasteful,” said Langley. “As a mother who raised a family here in Fairfax County, and now a grandmother, I am absolutely disgusted with the poor example Elizabeth Schultz is setting for our children.”

“For a School Board member to defend Donald Trump’s demeaning and despicable remarks about women, and to casually joke about guns while doing so, is intolerable and completely inappropriate. Elizabeth Schultz should apologize, rescind her support of Donald Trump, and resign from her position as the Springfield Representative to the Fairfax County School Board.”

a) There’s no “government monopoly over education,” there are a gazillion private and parochial schools, also home-schooling options
b) If you want to send your kids to private school, that’s fine, but you need to pay for it and not expect other taxpayers to subsidize your decision to opt out of free public school.

How much are children charged to attend public school? Obviously, public school is paid for by taxes we all pay, including those of us (like me) without kids.

Chris Ambrose

I don’t think he means it literally “free.” Everything costs something, a fact that Republicans who enjoy cutting taxes as an end in itself, never seem to grasp. The issue is that we have to pay taxes to pay for it. And it will cost more and more in taxes if we are subsidizing private schools.